Oliver Tambo

If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid…

— Oliver Tambo

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of…

— Oliver Tambo

Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in…

— Oliver Tambo

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

— Oliver Tambo

How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have…

— Oliver Tambo

I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in…

— Oliver Tambo

The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.

— Oliver Tambo

Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.

— Oliver Tambo

The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings,…

— Oliver Tambo

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake…

— Oliver Tambo

My sister had some ailment and convulsions that she suffered from, and she had been sent to some place to go and…

— Oliver Tambo

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

— Oliver Tambo

The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

— Oliver Tambo

You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a…

— Oliver Tambo

For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

— Oliver Tambo

The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

— Oliver Tambo

The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It…

— Oliver Tambo

The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to…

— Oliver Tambo

The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South…

— Oliver Tambo

The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all - Communists and non-Communists alike - want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa.

— Oliver Tambo

Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

— Oliver Tambo

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same…

— Oliver Tambo

The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.

— Oliver Tambo

We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end…

— Oliver Tambo

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

— Oliver Tambo